Subversion plugin should provide a configuration switch to ignore svn-externals.

Many projects integrate opensource projects in the following way:

$ svn propset svn:externals "getline http://anonsvn.mono-project.com/source/trunk/mcs/tools/csharp" .

If the subversion plugin now polls the sourcecode repository of a project which is using
externals every minute - all 3rd party subversion repositories are also polled.
This might be a DDOS for public opensource projects.
Typically developers use certain svn tag releases in their projects - therefore it is not
ncessary to poll this tag-releases every minute.

In other words: Something like "svn --ignore-externals up ." is needed...

Subversion plugin should provide the following configuration options:

[X] Fetch svn:externals
  [ ] Fetch svn:externals if checkout does not exist
  [ ] Fetch svn:externals periodically
      (1d) (m)inutes/(h)ours/(d)ays

If you have hints how to trigger this in the svn-api of org.tmatesoft.svn.* / how to implement this
please let me know...

Regards
Marc